I would note that the price information cited by Cindy Cicco below does
NOT include subscription prices for Current Developments reports, Mining Law,
Decisions, or the Monographs portions of service. The cost of a
subscription to Federal Environmental Laws & Regs plus the four items
above is $2,000 per year. Those other portions are priced separately from
the prices listed below and from the state materials. --ka
On Fri, 13 May 1994, CINDY CICCO wrote:
> I am one that is outraged at the manner at which BNA has poorly communicated
> their plans to cease publishing the hard copy version of the state regs and
> has tripled the price in cd-rom. I just spoke to my rep, and here is what
> he had to say: 1) the CD will eventually have more info than the hard copy
> version - the hc contained "selective" regs, while the CD will eventually
> have them all. (altho he couldn't tell me when this would occur - the initial
> July disk will still only have what is now in hard copy). Of course, he
> explained how researching will be faster and easier w/a cd.
> The cd rom reader - they are "loaning" this to us until the end of our
> current subscription year. If you resubscribe to at least one portion on
> cd, you can keep the reader. BNA has no plans at this time to offer any
> reduced pricing to academic institutions, as other cos. have done in the
> past. If you are interested in the prices, they are as follows:
>
> Federal Environmental Laws & Regs = $792.
> Federal Chemical Laws & Regs = $616.
> Federal Hazardous Materials Transportation = $680.
> Each state = $466.
> Total for all states and federal material = $6748.
>
> fyi: we just paid $2321. for the federal environmental laws and the states.
>
> I would be very interested in what other libraries are planning to do -
> especially academic institutions.
>
> Cindy Cicco
> Head of Technical Services
> University of Pittsburgh
> Barco Law Library
> cin@vms.cis.pitt.edu
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